Whole Earth published a whole spectrum of ideas, so you can cherry pick and find things that were prescient of the trouble we would find ourselves in. But overall the publication held a very optimistic view that stands at odds with present day reality.

I'm just looking at the covers, listed by publication date. I'm not cherry picking from inside the magazines. I was too young to really remember the 80s or early 90s so I'm just surprised that people were worried about the same things back then, as if only the technology form factor has changed. The notion of computers as attention traps I find especially surprising given the state of personal computing in 1985.